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MPs debate Trump’s state visit to Britain

On Monday, the British MPs put Donald Trump’s visit to a debate.

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A counter-petition urging the government to support the visit, signed by 300,000, was also being debated.

Some lawmakers said May’s haste to bolster the trans-Atlantic “special relationship” as the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Union had an edge of desperation.

This wasn’t about whether Mr. Trump should be allowed to visit Britain, but whether he has the right to a state visit – meet with the queen, maybe stay at the palace, the whole shebang.

Bale said that May’s courting of Trump was probably driven by the Brexit vote and by Britain’s need to cement alliances with new trading partners after it leaves the European Union. We all disagree fundamentally with many things he has said, but he is there.

“The racism, his abuse of disabled people, it is appalling and it is unacceptable”.

MPs came out of the debate to address the crowds. “But they decided, by the majority of states in the Electoral College as it works, that they wanted Donald Trump”. “I think this country is greater than that”. There is lots of stuff going on that doesn’t get reported.

“I am grateful to the honorable gentleman for giving way and for his response to Mr. Trump’s perhaps ill-considered phraseology, but what complaint did the honorable gentleman make when [Japanese] Emperor Hirohito came here, who was responsible for the Rape of Nanking?” he asked.

President George W. Bush waited 978 days after taking office for his invitation, and President Barack Obama waited 758 days.

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But Sir Alan hit back that “in an uncertain and increasingly unsafe world, the ability to work closely with key countries is of critical importance”.

He added: ‘We would become isolated, we would become less influential and it would not be in our national interest’.

“It’s a relationship which transcends political parties on both sides of the Atlantic and it is bigger than individual personalities – it is about the security and the prosperity of our two nations”.

The three-hour debate was held on Monday, after some 1.8 million Britons signed a petition against the offer, which was extended to Trump by Prime Minister Theresa May on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.

Parliamentarians from leading Conservative and opposing parties expressed their views inside the parliament on the proposed state visit extended by Prime Minister Theresa May during her visit to the USA on January 27.

The petition has already been rejected by Prime Minister Theresa May’s government. To do it in the name of shared values was stomach churning. He says that they share no values and how could they hope of finding one.

Placards reading “No to Trump” and “Dump Trump” were held by demonstrators in Parliament Square, in the latest rally against the United States president who came to power a month ago.

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The timing and content of the visit have yet to be agreed, MPs were told. The Japanese emperor’s 1971 state visit was highly controversial at the time. Even if he fills people with rage, the fact is that he is there. Nigel Evans, MP for Ribble Valley, warned against sneering at the 61 million Americans who voted for the president, describing them as “the forgotten people”.

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